Global mass violence

Examining Racial and Gendered Violence in the Twilight of Multiculturalism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2147406
AutoresFelice Blake (Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume40
Fascículo14
Páginas2615-2633
Data de publicação2017-11-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1237669
OpenAlexW2534263143
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas31

This article examines three instances of mass violence for what they tell us about the inadequacies of post-racial and colourblind discourses in the US and Europe. I apply an intersectional analysis of the manifestoes that Anders Behring Breivik, Elliot Rodger and Dylann Roof leave in the wake of their horrific acts. These manifestoes, in their appropriation of rights discourses and desire for a white racial order, expose the ambivalent commitments to persons of colour evident in the current retreat of many Western states from multiculturalist ideals in favour of post-racial integration. These states now advocate policies of integration over previous emphases on multiculturalism and diversity, a move that reflects the growing popular promotion of national identity and nativist culture. I argue that such incidents of mass violence should be understood in relation to the political, social and cultural contexts that perpetuate and often legitimate xenophobia and gendered racism

Appropriation · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Xenophobia · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Race, History, and American Society